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Lightroom — Importing Hierarchical Keywords
Hierarchical keywords allows you to organize the information such as: "Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver" This mean that the photo is made in:
- The country: Canada
- The province: British Columbia
- The city: Vancouver
I like that way of organizing the keywords, because by just selecting Vancouver, Lightroom will enter for me the hierarchy Canada, British Columbia. I have only entered Vancouver, but I can easily retrieve all the photos that belongs to Canada.
Lightroom Hierarchical Keywords
- You can import the keywords from other catalogs or from ASCII text files.
- I use spreadsheets with TAB separated columns.
The indentation in Excel will add the correct number of tabs. You can create the same file as a text file with Notepad on Windows or Vi on Mac with TABs to mark the indentation and the hierarch. The indentation in Excel will add the correct number of tabs. You can create the same file as a text file with Notepad on Windows or Vi on Mac with TABs to mark the indentation and the hierarchy.
The hierarchy looks like:
[Geography]
Africa
Algeria
Angola
Benin
....
Why is Geography surrounded by square brackets?
The square brackets tell Lightroom that the keyword is a category. You can't associate the category Geography to a photo, but you can associate the category Africa or the category Angola to a photo. The category does not have to be in the first indentation.
Tags: Dam | Lightroom | Lightroom-How-To | Lightroom-Why | Technical
(title: Lightroom — Importing Hierarchical Keywords:)
Lightroom — Importing Hierarchical Keywords
Hierarchical keywords allows you to organize the information such as: "Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver" This mean that the photo is made in:
- The country: Canada
- The province: British Columbia
- The city: Vancouver
I like that way of organizing the keywords, because by just selecting Vancouver, Lightroom will enter for me the hierarchy Canada, British Columbia. I have only entered Vancouver, but I can easily retrieve all the photos that belongs to Canada.
Lightroom Hierarchical Keywords
- You can import the keywords from other catalogs or from ASCII text files.
- I use spreadsheets with TAB separated columns.
The indentation in Excel will add the correct number of tabs. You can create the same file as a text file with Notepad on Windows or Vi on Mac with TABs to mark the indentation and the hierarch. The indentation in Excel will add the correct number of tabs. You can create the same file as a text file with Notepad on Windows or Vi on Mac with TABs to mark the indentation and the hierarchy.
The hierarchy looks like:
[Geography]
Africa
Algeria
Angola
Benin
....
Why is Geography surrounded by square brackets?
The square brackets tell Lightroom that the keyword is a category. You can't associate the category Geography to a photo, but you can associate the category Africa or the category Angola to a photo. The category does not have to be in the first indentation.
Tags: Dam | Lightroom | Lightroom-How-To | Lightroom-Why | Technical (title: Lightroom — Importing Hierarchical Keywords:)
